Comments on: OBAMACARE CAUSES 22,000 SENIORS TO LOSE THEIR MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/09/28/obamacare-causes-22000-seniors-to-lose-their-medicare-advantage-plans/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/09/28/obamacare-causes-22000-seniors-to-lose-their-medicare-advantage-plans/#comment-462380 Catron Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:12:15 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/09/28/obamacare-causes-22000-seniors-to-lose-their-medicare-advantage-plans/#comment-462380 That's the line being pushed by the JournoList zombie Maggie Mahar, but it has 2 big problems: 1) It is attached at the hip with the theory that everyone else in the media got this wrong because they were anxious to dump on Obama. Sorry. Doesn't pass the laugh test. 2) The Shultz quote provided by Mahar doesn't actually support her MIPPA claim. That MIPPA is also a problem does not mean that PPACA wasn't the main factor. That’s the line being pushed by the JournoList zombie Maggie Mahar, but it has 2 big problems:

1) It is attached at the hip with the theory that everyone else in the media got this wrong because they were anxious to dump on Obama. Sorry. Doesn’t pass the laugh test.

2) The Shultz quote provided by Mahar doesn’t actually support her MIPPA claim. That MIPPA is also a problem does not mean that PPACA wasn’t the main factor.

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/09/28/obamacare-causes-22000-seniors-to-lose-their-medicare-advantage-plans/#comment-462378 Marc Brown Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:35:45 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/09/28/obamacare-causes-22000-seniors-to-lose-their-medicare-advantage-plans/#comment-462378 You've got this wrong - the CEO of Pilgrim says it's the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA), passed two years before health reform legislation, that drove this decision. Don't believe everything you read in the papers. You’ve got this wrong – the CEO of Pilgrim says it’s the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA), passed two years before health reform legislation, that drove this decision. Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.

]]> By: whitman http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/09/28/obamacare-causes-22000-seniors-to-lose-their-medicare-advantage-plans/#comment-462368 whitman Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:41:54 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/09/28/obamacare-causes-22000-seniors-to-lose-their-medicare-advantage-plans/#comment-462368 Finally someone who has figured AARP out. Believe me this is only the beginning. More companies will be folding their MA plans. How about the latest: AARP lost 3 million people on the Part-D plan. CMS automatically reassigned to a new plan and, of course, it will cost the seniors more money. If they don't like it switch to a cheaper plan, you greedy seniors.... all you did was give us our way of life, but hey we don't need you anymore. Finally someone who has figured AARP out. Believe me this is only the beginning. More companies will be folding their MA plans. How about the latest: AARP lost 3 million people on the Part-D plan. CMS automatically reassigned to a new plan and, of course, it will cost the seniors more money. If they don’t like it switch to a cheaper plan, you greedy seniors…. all you did was give us our way of life, but hey we don’t need you anymore.

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